The damned and the beautiful : American youth in the 1920's / / Paula S. Fass
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| Autore: |
Fass Paula S
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| Titolo: |
The damned and the beautiful : American youth in the 1920's / / Paula S. Fass
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1979, c1977 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xii, 497 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 973.915 |
| 973.915088055 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Youth - United States - History |
| Conflict of generations - United States | |
| Subculture | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social conditions 1918-1932 |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Youth in the 1920's -- Part I: The Plastic Age -- 1. The Children of Our Discontent -- 2. The Family Redivivus: 1880-1930 -- 3. The World of Youth: The Peer Society -- 4. Work and Play in the Peer Society -- Part II: Flappers and Philosophers -- 5. Competition and Conformity in the Peer Culture -- 6. Sexual Mores in the World of Youth -- 7. Symbols of Liberation -- 8. The Politics of Cultural Liberalism -- Conclusion: Change and Stability -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Explores the changes that occurred as young people of the 1920's broke with nineteenth-century traditions, and assesses the impact of those changes on American life, then and now. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The damned and the beautiful |
| ISBN: | 1-280-52282-8 |
| 0-19-802020-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911100667603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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